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guardian.co.uk - 9/18/2009
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Mars with Computer Generated Moon Surface Should the
Booker judges pay more attention to science fiction? ......
a computed-generated montage of Mars. Photograph: Denis Scott/Corbis
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Science fiction author hits out at Booker judges ...
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tor.com - 9/5/2009
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Tor.com is thrilled to present an exclusive read
of the entire first chapter from The Gathering Storm,...
the upcoming volume of Robert Jordan’s beloved Wheel of Time® series. We’re working with Tor Books to make this sneak peek available on Tor.com ...
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The Gathering Storm - By Robert Jardan And Brandon Sanderson
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savethedragons.nu - 9/2/2009
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Welcome to SAVE THE DRAGONS Breaking News Update:
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the people who've...
visited so far the next chapter (that is Chapter 2) will show up on September 3rd. Chapter 3 will then be posted next Monday, September 7th. ...
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Save the Dragons!
sfsignal.com - 9/23/2009
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Short fiction anthologies come in many flavors: some
contain original fiction and some are comprised of reprints;...
they can be themed or non-themed; they may restrict themselves to a certain sub-genre of speculative fiction... But one thing they all ...
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MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short ...
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wyrmpublishing.com - 9/24/2009
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Print Run: 1000 Hardcover Length: 160 pages Publication
Date: November 2009 Publisher: Ministry of Whimsy (an imprint...
of Wyrm) Cover Art by: Scott Eagle Cover Design by: Jacob McMurray Interior Design by: John Coulthart BOOK LAUNCH TO BE HELD ...
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Last Drink Bird Head ed. by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ...
store.tor.com - 9/4/2009
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About The Authors David G. Hartwell is a
senior editor at Tor/Forge Books. He is the author...
of "Age of Wonders" and the editor of many anthologies, including "The Dark Descent", "The World Treasury of Science Fiction", and a number of Christmas ...
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Tor.com Store: Book: Year's Best Fantasy 9
whatever.scalzi.com - 9/15/2009
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It looks like it’s time to do a
little more head-knocking regarding the life of a writer,...
so let’s just start knocking heads, shall we. Dear currently unpublished/newbie writers who spend their time bitching about how published/established ...
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On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers
newscientist.com - 9/17/2009
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A Hundred Years ? Thu Sep 17 13:37:46 BST...
2009 by Subhash C Mehta I'm not a pessimist, but I shudder to think about the fate of our planet a hundred years on; what with the kind of environmental disasters waiting ...
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fi special: The fiction of now - New Scientist
newscientist.com - 9/17/2009
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8th July 37 * Dear Mr. Stapledon, I
would have thanked you for your book before, but...
I have been very busy and have only just had time to read it. I don't suppose that I have understood more than a small part - all the same I have understood enough to ...
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Science fiction: The stories of now - 16 September 2009
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locusmag.com - 9/24/2009
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Lawrence Van Cott Niven was born in Los
Angeles and attended the California Institute of Technology in...
Pasadena from 1956-58, but didn't graduate. He got his BA in mathematics from Washburn University in Topeka KS in 1962, then returned to ...
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Larry Niven: Tell Me a Story
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jeffvandermeer.com - 9/24/2009
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So, here’re details and the spiel about Last
Drink Bird Head, but it’s a spiel for a...
good cause, so please read–and please spread this link through your own blogs. We’d love to sell out this hardcover edition well before ...
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LAST DRINK BIRD HEAD FOR CHARITY: Party, Pre-Orders, ...
cheryl-morgan.com - 9/2/2009
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Some of the responses to the women and
the Hugos debate have suggested that we need to...
do more to promote SF written by women so that people know to read it. Others have said that few women are eligible, or that women don’t vote. Niall Harrison ...
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Women & SF: Some Numbers
manybooks.net - 9/3/2009
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Author: Various Authors Language: English Published: 1930 STOLEN
BRAINS by CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK Dr. Bird, Scientific...
Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains. THE INVISIBLE DEATH by VICTOR ROUSSEAU With ...
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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930
locusmag.com - 9/4/2009
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As I write these words, the news of
Locus editor-in-chief and co-founder Charles N. Brown's death is...
only a week old, and I'm still in shock. Charles has been generous and supportive of me throughout my career, and producing this column for the past ...
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Cory Doctorow: Special Pleading
jimhines.livejournal.com - 9/7/2009
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Neil Gaiman once wrote a Nebula-winning story using
only the middle row of his keyboard. Harper Collins...
has taken out a 2.5 million dollar insurance policy on Neil Gaiman’s accent. If you write 1000 words and Neil Gaiman writes 1000 ...
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20 Neil Gaiman Facts
bestsciencefictionstories.com - 9/8/2009
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Bizarrely Connected Stories: In which I find a
strange theme connecting several short stories that I have...
reviewed in the past. Today’s feature: Six Science Fiction Stories That Include Difficult Alien Languages! I like to consider myself an ...
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Six Science Fiction Stories That Include Difficult Alien ...
6of3.com - 9/14/2009
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: the Original
Radio Scripts The radio transcripts for the original 12...
shows are published by Pan, as it was written and exactly how it was broadcast for the first time. They include amendments and additions made ...
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And Another Thing... - Eoin Colfer – Douglas Adams's ...
darkscribemagazine.com - 9/16/2009
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By, Vince A. Liaguno Ellen Datlow tells it
like it is. There is nothing indirect about her...
– no ambiguity, no bush beating. Whether she’s rankled over would-be editors who don’t know the difference between line editing and ...
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Ellen Datlow: Editor Unbound
newscientist.com - 9/17/2009
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This week's New Scientist contains seven very short
stories by leading science fiction writers. All of them...
are set about a century from now – the time that guest editor Kim Stanley Robinson calls "the hardest zone of all, when our growing ...
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New Scientist: Flash fiction competition 2009 - 16 ...
